Word: laxalt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's a lot of political savvy around at the top," says IOP Fellow David R. Gergen, the President's former director of communications. Returning to call the plays as campaign chairman is Sen. Paul Laxalt (R.-Nev.), the person on Capitol Hill closest to Reagan; the chief strategist and campaign manager is Ed Rollins, a former Oakland Raider and assistant to the president for political affairs in the White House. The Reagan team also managed to grab consultant Stu Spencer, the premier political tactician who gave President Gerald Ford's 1976 campaign the only real intellectual power it ever...
...strategy decisions; according to campaign press assistant John Buckley, Reagan "prefers to keep the Oval Office removed from the operation." Not too removed, however-his two closest White House aides, special counsel James Baker and chief of staff Michael Deaver, are reportedly in very close contact with Laxalt and Rollins, the pair acts as the President's eyes and ears on the campaign, allowing him to concentrate publicly on the affairs of state...
...entire resources of the Republican Party a his disposal not least of which are the sophisticated PR, media, and high tech skills of its top strategists. The Reagan '84 campaign boasts many of the same key players that carried the '80 juggernaut like campaign chairman, Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev); campaign manager, Edward Rollins; the pollster Richard Wirthlin; and White House advisers James Baker and Michael K. Deaver...
...negotiations began with a two-hour session at Blair House, the elegant building across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. The Administration's team included Regan, Stockman and Baker. On the congressional side, two Reaganite stalwarts, Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi, represented the Republicans. The Democrats were House Majority Leader James Wright of Texas and Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii...
...matured substantially," says Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, chairman of Reagan's re-election committee. "In the early days, he'd cling to those note cards like a life preserver...